Genesis 2:21

God's Word

So the Lord God caused him to fall into a deep sleep. While the man was sleeping, the Lord God took out one of the man’s ribs and closed up the flesh at that place.

Cross References

Genesis 15:12

As the sun was just about to set, a deep sleep—a dreadful, deep darkness—came over Abram.

Job 4:13

With disturbing thoughts from visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on people,

1 Samuel 26:12

David took the spear and the jar of water near Saul’s head, and they left. All of them were asleep. No one saw them, knew about it, or woke up. The Lord had made them fall into a deep sleep.

Daniel 8:18

As he spoke to me, I fainted facedown on the ground, but he touched me and made me stand up.

Job 33:15

In a dream, a prophetic vision at night, when people fall into a deep sleep, when they sleep on their beds,

Proverbs 19:15

Laziness throws one into a deep sleep, and an idle person will go hungry.

1 Corinthians 11:8

Clearly, man wasn’t made from woman but woman from man.